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Trans Rights - and Wrongs: The Closure of GIDS

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Early Blocking of Puberty

In 2011, the Tavistock started a study to look at what impact blocking puberty earlier would have on young people. But instead of waiting for the results of that data to come out, they didn't wait and rolled out early interventions. The head of mermaids requested on a number of occasions for a young person to have their clinicians changed because presumably they weren't being referred to or physical interventions. And those clinicians were changed. So I think it's almost a bit more subtle than people want to believe. It wasn't necessarily that they were always influencing clinical practice, but more that they didn't change direction at jids when perhaps they should and could haveBecause of a fear of how

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